🐕On Saturday, 20th July, we had another great afternoon at Woodside Hall Nursing Home’s lovely garden. The weather was kind, albeit a little warm still, but not as hot as the day before. The dogs were also well behaved.
🐶We had 24 dogs and their owners turn up to enter at least 1, and often most of the relevant 8 classes. There were dogs of all ages, 3 lovely dogs who entered the veteran dog class (over 10 years old), Boris, Poppy and Evie, as well as a few gorgeous, well behaved puppies of under 6 months old who entered several of the other classes as we didn’t have a specific puppy class. There were dogs of all sizes up to a gorgeous Bernese Mountain dog and a St Bernard. There were even several junior handlers with their dogs, such a lovely experience for the youngsters.
🎉We made £117.08, having taken the cost of the rosettes out.
💙We would like to thank Woodside Hall for hosting the event and supporting with stalls, and Kate, our wonderful Judge, who came all the way from the other side of Brighton. Kate is also a Canine Concern volunteer who coordinates the Sussex universities and police visits.
💙We would like to thank the A22 store, Wahl and Burns for supplying gifts for the goody bags for the 3 winners of each class.
💙We would also like to thank the Woodside Hall nursing home staff as well as our kind volunteer helpers, Helena, Janice and Sarndra. Thank you too for all the people who turned up to either watch or partake in the show with their lovely dogs. Without you all we couldn’t have had such a great day.
✨Until Next year!!
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We were invited by the Nursing home manager, Sharon Lloyd, to run a dog show in the lovely grounds of Woodside Hall Nursing Home in July.
The idea was to entertain the residents as well as promoting the work of Canine Concern Care dogs as well as the lovely nursing home.
The Nursing home organised a raffle, BBQ and other refreshments whilst Canine Concern organised the actual dog show. They made a great team of volunteers.
We had 25 dogs take part, and we raised just over £100.
The winner of the first class, prettiest bitch, was Mabel with Marianne, the second class, most handsome dog, was Benny with Bill.
We then had waggiest tail, Bono with Ray and most appealing eyes, Loki with Danni. We then had a class of the best 6 legs, where the handler and their dog are judged together. This is always a fun class and Rose with Aimee won this.
Finally we had the residents’ choice, where the residents of Woodside Hall Nursing Home voted on the best dog in the ring. This went to Isaac, a lovely Australian Labradoodle with Debbie.
Finally the best in show, the best of all the 6 class winners, was awarded to Benny with Bill.
They won a lovely trophy as well as their rosette , certificate and goody bag from the most handsome dog. There were lots of proud owners and happy dogs.
Woodside Hall Nursing Home
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Jane was asked to deliver a talk to a local WI group about #CanineConcern with her two lovely dogs, Emmi and Jaana.
The WI group enjoyed the interesting talk by Jane and Emmi and Jaana did a fantastic job and wowed everyone there!
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Last week, response teams were focusing on their wellbeing.
Joey and Layla visited the police station in Brighton a couple time to relieve the stress of some of the officer’s shoulders.
Owners Katy and Amanda took their Canine Concern team to the police station in Eastbourne and shared plenty of cuddles and kisses.
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Meet Flake the chocolate Labrador and latest edition to the HQ team of Canine Concern!
Here are a few photos of Flake, our new doggo, with Konnor and Savannah - being cute!!
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✨ We are delighted to share our Laughter Lines Competition winning entry is Jade with her dog Gizmo. 🎉
Other entries include photos of Dexter, Beau, Maia, Konnor and even our CEO Val!
Jade will be receiving a Sterling Silver Canine Concern Pin as her prize
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It’s that incredible time of year again when the Bluebells are out!
Canine Concern member Penny took her gorgeous border collies to her local woods for another photoshoot!
I think you can agree that all the photos are incredible but which one is your favourite for the 2023 charity calendar?
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To coincide with #NationalTeaDay and #ThrowbackThursday we thought we would share all your lovely photos from our Virtual Tea Party to celebrate when the charity turned 33 years old! 🎉
How time flies when you’re having fun
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Barney is very eager to attend his local primary school!
The lovely children at the Primary School read some great stories to him last week.
Also some of them have been fundraising for Canine Concern by baking cakes, making loom bands and more which is so thoughtful!
Keep up the amazing work everyone and thank you for your support.
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Crufts 2022
🐾 Our volunteers that visited Crufts had a jolly good time! 🐶
Here are just a selection of fabulous photos from our members and their pooches – mostly from their time on the Kennel Club Bark & Read stand.
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Today is International Day of Persons with a Disability
Not only do we provide wellbeing to persons with disabilities through our therapy dogs – but some of our dogs themselves suffer with disabilities.
Pictured here are just a few of our disabled volunteer therapy dogs - Gusdog, Dibley and Beau, that have done amazing work for Canine Concern over the years.
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The Coventry Crew – Milo and Dexter - had a busy day with the pupils at their local primary school.
They supported the children with their reading and art. Keep up the amazing work!
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